A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

For decades, when people have wanted to stick two things together but later pull them back apart, Velcro has been the answer. In the future, however, the material may get some competition from bird ...

Parrots are known for their bright feathers, sharp intelligence, and emotional bonding with humans. So when a parrot starts ...

Over the last two decades, spectacular palaeontological discoveries, mainly from China, have revolutionized our understanding in the origin and evolution of feathers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Major novel ...

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The dance tradition has survived five centuries of cultural changes and fused Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past with its present Alejandro E. Hernández, Fernando Gumeta-Gómez, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, Marco ...

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Lorraine Feather was born in Manhattan. Her parents named her Billie Jane Lee Lorraine after godmother Billie Holiday, her mother Jane (formerly a big band singer), her mother’s ex-roommate Peggy Lee, ...